Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Coimbra, Portugal, where I just did my usual shtick on the latest and greatest in Spring Framework 7.x, Spring Boot 4.x, and Spring AI 2.x. It was a ton of fun, and I want to thank everybody who came out. Last week I was in Munich, Germany, where I had the privilege of doing a segment in the opening keynote, along with folks from Uber, Anthropic, Google, and more, and then I did a standalone session as well. A huge ton of fun, too! And in between it all, the days that have passed? Amazing, as always, and we will…

Hi Spring and Kotlin fans! In this installment, I have the privilege of talking to my old friend and JetBrains legend Hadi Hariri, recorded live from Kotlin Conf 2026 in Munich, Germany! #kotlin #jvm #java #springboot

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!, this one written from the back of a taxi racing to the local Frankfurt train station, where I'll take a train to Munich for the amazing Kotlin Conf 2026 edition, where I'll be part of the keynote and deliver a talk on the latest and greatest in Kotlin and Spring. It's going to be a ton of fun, and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone there! Don't hesitate to say println("hi")! It's Germany, and the autobahn really is scarily, um, efficient, so I'm gonna get this post down while I still can! Let's dive right into it! In…

Hi, Spring fans! I'm so thrilled to have been able to sit down and talk to my friend Adib Saikali!

Hi, Spring fans! As I write this I am in Miami, FL at the CodeRemix.ai show, focused on the wide and wonderful world of OpenRewrite and Moderne. I've got a talk to give so let's dive right into it! a quick note about the upcoming release train dates in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to the legendary Daniel Garnier-Moiroux about his new book Testing Spring Boot Applications I love Craig Walls' Spring AI recipes, in this case building a graph-based agentic workflow! speaking of, Matthew Meckes did a nice talk on Spring AI for GOTO this is interesting: a discussion on…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment I'm thrilled to have had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Daniel Garnier-Moiroux and talk about "Testing Spring Boot Applications," from Manning! #testing #springboot #java #kotlin #springframework

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's May 5th, 2026, and I'm in Mainz, Germany, for the legendary JAX conference! It's been infinitely far too long since I've been at this amazing show, and I'm oh-so happy to be back here! Tonight, after my two talks here, I'm off to London, UK, for the equally amazing Devoxx UK show! It's bound to be a ton of fun! In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Ronald Dehuysser about his group's new JobRunr-powered OpenClaw-like thing. Have you seen that we have a handy new Releases section on the blog…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to my friend and JobRunr founder Ronald Dehuysser about the latest and greatest, and their new "JavaClaw" project!

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this, I'm on PTO in beautiful Santorini, Greece, catching up on some news and about to cruise the islands for some sightseeing. There's nothing quite like springtime in the Mediterranean! I couldn't dream of enjoying the weather during the spring season until I checked in on which way the wind was blowing in the Spring community, and so here we are! Let's dive right into it! In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to both Dr. Venkat Subramaniam and James Ward, ahead of a talk that the three of…

I am beyond thrilled that I got to co-present with two legends, Dr. Venkat Subramaniam and James Ward, at Voxxed Days Amsterdam, and even more so that they both sat down for a quick discussion with me right before that presentation. Enjoy!